Thursday, November 15, 2012
No subject was off-limits as three Muslim educators good-naturedly handled questions on Islam from a large audience in Morton Grove. All had ties to the Morton Grove mosque, and wanted to help neighbors understand Islam better.
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- Pam DeFiglio
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
About 70 people filled the Morton Grove Library's Baxter room Wednesday to hear three Muslim educators, with ties to Morton Grove's Muslim Community Center, give a lively question and answer session about their faith. Habeeb Qadri, the principal of the MCC's Full Time School and a former staff member and student at Harvard University's Principals' Center, started the evening off with a brief introduction to Islam. Then he joined two others at a panel. They were Omer Mozaffer, who teaches at the University of Chicago's Graham School and is an adjunct professor of theology at Loyola University, and Abeer Saleh, who teaches science at the MCC's Full Time School. Earlier: Muslims invite neighbors to Global Fest at Morton Grove mosque Qadri'…
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
A college professor and educators from Morton Grove's Islamic school will give a brief intro to Islam at the Morton Grove Library Wednesday. Questions--on topics from headscarves to Ramadan--are welcome.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Residents from Morton Grove and surrounding communities will have a chance to learn about the Islamic faith and culture from their Muslim neighbors at Morton Grove’s Muslim Community Center, thanks to an upcoming interactive forum called “Muslim Faith and Culture, a Neighborhood Q&A” slated for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 14, at the Morton Grove Public Library. Representatives from the MCC will be on hand to answer questions on everything from “what is the Islamic faith?”, to daily life aspects such as headscarves, holidays and more. Audience members will be invited to submit questions. Earlier: MCC Invites Neighbors to Global Fest Earlier: Shot Fired at Mosque Aug. 3 Earlier: Muslim Center Invites Community Leaders To Eid Celebration…
Friday, August 17, 2012
At the Morton Grove mosque, Muslims shared how the month of fasting from sunup to sundown helps them feel closer to God.
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan will end Sunday or Monday, but at the beginning, Imad Shamsuddin, 21, said he bought a lot of junk food to snack on at night. He barely opens half of it, though, he found, saying his appetite is smaller because of the sunrise-to-sunset fast every day of the month. (Most Muslims eat a meal before sunrise, then break the fast with an evening meal at sunset, taking no food or drink during daylight hours.) Shamsuddin, of Skokie, and others at Morton Grove's Muslim Community Center for prayers Wednesday said fasting is challenging, but taking the focus off of food and things of this world helps them feel closer to God. Earlier: Starbucks barista makes drinks all day, can't drink any "It's about taqwa--God …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
A 'MacGyver bomb' thrown at an Islamic school in Lombard yesterday set Muslims at Morton Grove's mosque further on edge after Friday's air rifle shooting.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The air-rifle shooting incident Friday was only one of a recent series of events that have made worshippers at Morton Grove's mosque nervous, said a leader Tuesday. As Muslims draw their holy month of Ramadan to a close at the end of this week, several incidents have happened, said Rizwan Kadir, immediate past chairman of the Muslim Community Center Full-Time School, including: "When you look at this sequence of events, it has taken an emotional toll on us," Kadir explained. "My biggest consolation is that school (the MCC Full-Time School) was not in session or it would have been worse." Get Niles and Morton Grove news from Patch in your email. It's free. The air-rifle pellets fired on the Morton Grove mosque could have killed or …
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Meet K. Rizwan Kadir, chairman of the Muslim Community Center's Full-Time School in Morton Grove. He talks about his most uplifting religious experience, and practical challenges.
Patch is chatting with local religious leaders to get to know them. This week, we caught up with K. Rizwan Kadir, a Pakistani-American Muslim who worships at the Muslim Community Center in Morton Grove and was recently appointed chairman of MCC's full-time school board. He lives in Glenview. In addition to his involvement with the local community, Kadir is also President of Pakistan Club at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and serves on the board of several Islamic organizations in the U.S. A senior consultant to Fortune 100 firms, Kadir specializes in strategic planning, governance, and financial management. This letter to the editor written by Kadir on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, was among Patch’s most popular …
Monday, June 11, 2012
Booths showcase many countries which MCC Full Time School students come from, and each booth gave free food samples.
"The jackfruit is our most popular fruit," Fatema Haque said, pointing to a photo of a whole jackfruit, and then inviting visitors to sample some cut-up fruit on a platter. She was standing behind the Bangladesh display table at Cultural Night Thursday at the Muslim Community Center Full Time School in Morton Grove. All around the school's gym, display tables were set up from 21 countries--each with maps, artifacts and art from the country, and each offering a typical food to the many interested people who came to the festival. "This is a dream come true for me," said Rizwan Kadir, chairman of the MCC Full Time School council, who was key in organizing the fest. "We're new in the community so the onus is on us to introduce ourselves." …
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10:58 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
b garrett- every nation, and city, sadly has bigots that want to oppress people unlike them. Bigotry against Muslims un the U.S. is underreported in the U.S. while bigotry against non-Muslims in Muslim dominant countries is overreported. They are allowed to practice- that just isn't big news. more ›